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There’s already significant questions about playgrounds covered with recycled rubber and the suggestion that sports fields covered with such materials generate

There’s already significant questions about playgrounds covered with recycled rubber and the suggestion that sports fields covered with such materials generate black cancerous dust. I really would not want to live in a street paved with recycled plastics being ground into dust and distributed into the local environment. All you’ll hear though about this sort of thing is how wonderful it is that use is being found for waste plastics. I’d say “who are the companies financing these initiatives? Are they plastics manufacturers?” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/25/lawmakers-concerned-chemicals-rubber-playgrounds-push-safety-rules https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/25/lawmakers-co... Plastics are being incorporated into roads everywhere. It’s the next asbestos disaster and it’s completely obvious it’s coming.

imhoguy 5y ago
I was playing on outdoor soccer field with artificial grass filled with lots of shredded rubber. When it got hot outside it was like plaing on tire dump and the smell made me sick.
briefcomment 5y ago
Repurposing things should come with high scrutiny and strict regulations. Seed oils were repurposed from varnishes to be “healthy fats” when petroleum based varnishes took market share, to likely devastating effect. “50 years ago, paints and varnishes were made of soy oil, safflower oil, and linseed (flax seed) oil. Then chemists learned how to make paint from petroleum, which was much cheaper. As a result, the huge seed oil industry found its crop increasingly hard to sell. Around the same time, farmers were experimenting with poisons to make their pigs get fatter with less food, and they discovered that corn and soy beans served the purpose, in a legal way. The crops that had been grown for the paint industry came to be used for animal food. Then these foods that made animals get fat cheaply came to be promoted as foods for humans, but they had to direct attention away from the fact that they are very fattening. The "cholesterol" focus was just one of the marketing tools used by the oil industry. Unfortunately it is the one that has lasted the longest, even after the unsaturated oils were proven to cause heart disease as well as cancer.” [1] Recycled toilet paper uses materials high in BPA. [1] https://raypeat.com/articles/articles/unsaturated-oils.shtml https://raypeat.com/articles/articles/unsaturated-oils.shtml
agumonkey 5y ago
I found out about green chemistry but maybe we should have a big pole dedicated to green societies. Center lifestyles around low rate of recycling (glass?) biodegradation potential, availability, etc
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imhoguy 5y ago

I was playing on outdoor soccer field with artificial grass filled with lots of shredded rubber. When it got hot outside it was like plaing on tire dump and the smell made me sick.

briefcomment 5y ago

Repurposing things should come with high scrutiny and strict regulations. Seed oils were repurposed from varnishes to be “healthy fats” when petroleum based varnishes took market share, to likely devastating effect. “50 years ago, paints and varnishes were made of soy oil, safflower oil, and linseed (flax seed) oil. Then chemists learned how to make paint from petroleum, which was much cheaper. As a result, the huge seed oil industry found its crop increasingly hard to sell. Around the same time, farmers were experimenting with poisons to make their pigs get fatter with less food, and they discovered that corn and soy beans served the purpose, in a legal way. The crops that had been grown for the paint industry came to be used for animal food. Then these foods that made animals get fat cheaply came to be promoted as foods for humans, but they had to direct attention away from the fact that they are very fattening. The "cholesterol" focus was just one of the marketing tools used by the oil industry. Unfortunately it is the one that has lasted the longest, even after the unsaturated oils were proven to cause heart disease as well as cancer.” [1] Recycled toilet paper uses materials high in BPA. [1] https://raypeat.com/articles/articles/unsaturated-oils.shtml https://raypeat.com/articles/articles/unsaturated-oils.shtml

agumonkey 5y ago

I found out about green chemistry but maybe we should have a big pole dedicated to green societies. Center lifestyles around low rate of recycling (glass?) biodegradation potential, availability, etc

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